Your spirit must be like water. Sometimes as calm as a mountain lake, sometimes raging like the wildest sea. Ever flexible, ever changing, yet at times absolutely motionless. Able to penetrate to the lowest depths or seek out the farthest corner. To range from crystal
clarity to impenetrable blackness. Able to freeze or boil; sparkle or murmur. Buoyant or crushing, filling the shape of any container.

To understand beauty and to submit to the fear of failure is death in life. To commit to the pursuit of beauty is to transcend fear. To grasp beauty for even a moment is ample reward for your labors.

Beauty is everywhere for he who can see it. Learn to look for it in everything. Immerse yourself in it, discriminate and analyze it, then produce it. For artistry is the recognition and reproduction of beauty.

In the pursuit of beauty and excellence, gird yourself with the armor of impenetrable commitment to withstand the blows of a lifetime of sacrifice, frustration and disappointment.

Not to see your destiny is a pity.
Not to seek your destiny is a sin.
Not to seize your destiny is damnation.

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